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All chapters of Foundations and Futures include lesson plans and curricular tools that are designed for high school students and grounded in ethnic studies pedagogy. Feel free to search our repository of primary sources and material that helps bring Asian American and Pacific Islander histories and experiences into the classroom.
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Nadeem Zaman Holding a Stack of His Book The Inheritors
Author Nadeem Zaman with his book, The Inheritors (2023). An English professor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Zaman arrived in the US in 1991 at fifteen. The legacy of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War features heavily in his writing.
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Bangladeshi Americans, Module 3
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Front Cover of Bring Now the Angels
Author Dilruba Ahmed’s Bring Now The Angels (2020). This book of poetry moves away from exploring notions of identity and belonging and instead deals with themes of grief and forgiveness.
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Bangladeshi Americans, Module 3
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Headshot of Dilruba Ahmed
Bangladeshi American author and poet, Dilruba Ahmed, at a bookstore reading. Her writings defy stereotypical representations of the exoticized Bengali and non-Western woman, emphasizing identity as fluid and multi-dimensional.
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Bangladeshi Americans, Module 3
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Headshot of Tanaïs
Tanaïs, a Bangladeshi American author and perfumer, grew up in Bangladesh, Illinois, Texas, Alabama, and Missouri. “I write from spaces of discomfort, the syncretic spaces of blending cultures.”
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Bangladeshi Americans, Module 3
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Headshot of Mahmud Rahman
Author Mahmud Rahman moved to the US from Dhaka, Bangladesh, as an undergraduate student. His writing reflects on movement and dislocation: from village to the city, from war to peace, from Bangladesh to the US.
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Bangladeshi Americans, Module 3
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Headshot of Sharbari Ahmed
Author and screenwriter Sharbari Ahmed is the first Bangladeshi to write for an American network TV show, Quantico, on ABC.
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Bangladeshi Americans, Module 3
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Tribal Dance Performed at Bangladeshi American Folk Festival
A tribal dance performance from 2024 at a Bangladeshi American folk festival in New York City celebrates Bangladeshi culture.
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Bangladeshi Americans, Module 2
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Refugees Stream Across the River Ganges Delta at Kushtia
Refugees stream across the delta of the Ganges river in 1971 as they flee the violence in East Pakistan during the ongoing West Pakistani military campaign, known as Operation Searchlight.
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Bangladeshi Americans, Module 2
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The Shaheed Minar in Dhaka
The Shaheed Minar (Martyr’s Monument) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, commemorates the lives of students who died fighting for the right to use their native Bengali language.
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Bangladeshi Americans, Module 2
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Map of South Asia
A map of South Asia, with Bangladesh between India and Myanmar.
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Bangladeshi Americans, Module 2
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Chapter Overview: Free Chol Soo Lee: How a Lone Immigrant on Death Row Sparked a Movement
Julie Ha
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Module 1: Who is Chol Soo Lee?
Julie Ha
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Module 2: Lost in America
Julie Ha
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Module 3: It Takes One Person
Julie Ha
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Module 4: ‘Blue Jeans and Chima Jeogori Getting Together’
Julie Ha
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Module 5: Silent Pleas
Julie Ha
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Chapter Overview: Fighting Anti-Asian Violence: Justice for Vincent Chin
Helen Zia
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Module 1: Who Was Vincent Chin?
Helen Zia
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Module 2: Economic Crises, the Politics of Blame, and 1980s Detroit
Helen Zia
